This is it! The news you've all been waiting for. The culmination of many years of development is here, bringing you quite possibly the most exquisite puzzle gaming experience you've ever enjoyed -- DROD: The Second Sky.http://www.caravelgames.com/Articles/Games_2/TSS.html

DROD: The Second Sky -- Released!

DROD:TSS is now available to everyone who has pre-ordered. When you pre-ordered, you should have received an e-mail from Caravel with a registration link for TSS. Once you have registered your order on the Caravel Forum, you will be able to download the game from this point forward. To download the game, just login on the Caravel Forum, click the Downloads link at the top of the page, and find DROD:TSS under the "CaravelNet Downloads" section. For those who have already pre-ordered and registered, we are granting one extra bonus month of CaravelNet service, effective immediately. Enjoy it while playing TSS, and go for some #1 scores!

If you haven't pre-ordered yet, don't worry. You may still do so and get the game right away from Caravel. We're setting the "official" release date of TSS as July 1. After that point, you should start seeing TSS appearing on other game portals. As DROD shows up through other distribution channels, we'll be happy to provide keys to everyone who has purchased the game directly from Caravel.

If you're buying TSS now, don't forget to buy the bundle version for just $5 more that comes with a lossless collection of Emmett Plant's epic music that is featured in TSS.

Now that TSS is out, we have announced the winners of our latest forum contest -- guessing the number of rooms that are in TSS. We're going to count each of the new world maps featured in TSS as a "room", bringing the total number of rooms in the game to...

888

Including the maps as rooms actually changes the winner, so we'll be generous and fair, gifting an extra first place prize. One is selected based on counting world maps along with rooms and the other without. Our contest winners are:

Congratulations to the winners! Lucky Luc and Tamsk, you each win a free copy of TSS (or a prize from the Prize Pile) and 100 rank points! Jamesdenem receives three free months of CaravelNet service and 50 rank points. Martz receives one free month of CaravelNet service and 25 rank points.

Stay tuned for more news and a new forum contest. We look forward to seeing you on the Caravel Forum and sharing your thoughts on TSS!

Happy DRODing,
Mike

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Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

Thank you for making my most favourite puzzle game series of all time! I liked all 4 of the main holds and I'm pretty sure I'm going to like The Second Sky more than all the previous 4 games combined! (I just hope I'm not setting my expectations unreasonably high)

Those of you just joining us and having preordered the game should activate your free month of CaravelNet and join the in-game chat. It's... quite active at the moment.

quote:Elswyyr wrote:
Quick question: Can I import all the holds I've got from DROD 4 into this, or do I need to redownload them? I know that I can export savefiles, but what about the actual hold files?

I'm not intending to spoil the party, but when I run the Windows installer it just gives me a "The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program." message box. I already tried redownloading the installer and using the compatibility options. Neither of the two things helped. Do you have similar problems or does the installer work for you?

I just redownloaded every hold I had and imported every save. Unfortunately, I've lost my 100% mastery for every hold, it's some random percentage now. Even for JTRH, though my save has access to Dreamplane. Is this just some weirdness that'll fix itself? I'd really like to still be able to see the holds I've done completely.
EDIT: Looking at the save files again, some rooms have randomly switched to not being cleared. Not sure if this helps.
DOUBLEEDIT: This problem was caused by importing the Saves Only file, and not the complete player profile.[Last edited by Elswyyr at 06-21-2014 05:43 PM]

This is the best news of the whole day. Evaluating by the sheer size of the installer it must be a 50+ hour single-player campaign compared to the previous series sizes and my play-through times (and this is without all the post-mastery).
This will keep me very happy over the next weeks (or months? ).
Thank you very very much, all of you who made this possible!

Thank you so much, everyone! We're so excited for this moment! Enjoy the game!

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Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.[Last edited by mrimer at 06-21-2014 07:08 PM]

quote:rman wrote:
Could someone remind me, is gentryii singular or plural? And whatís the corresponding plural/singular for it?

Gentryii is a faux-Latin genitive singular of "Gentry". The full name Harpactognathus gentryii means "Snatching jaws of Gentry" -- in the real world it's a pterodactyl species, Mr Gentry being the discoverer.

So, when gentryii is used alone as a short form of the name, it's the same in singular and plural.